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Automatic Voter Registration is still a ways off

Jul 18, 2019

You shouldn't wait until the automatic voter registration system kicks in, if you want to sign up as a new voter. 

Earlier this week, Parliament approved a bill to amend the constition, to lower the voting age and introduce automatic voter registration. 

However, the Election Commission says it will take at least one and a half years for the new system to be implemented, as it needs to set up the necessary infrastructure first. 

So if you want to register, you might as well do it now. 

To make things easer, the EC has launched a new portal that allows people to register as voters online. 

All you will need is Internet access on your computer or mobile phone, a valid phone number and email address, the front image of your MyKad and a selfie with your Mykad.

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Cybersecurity Malaysia has confirmed that the intimate videos allgedly implicating a Minister are authentic. 

However, IGP Datuk Seri Abdul Hamid Bador says the agency was NOT able to positively identify the two men shown in the videos.

Earlier, former Santubong PKR Youth chief Haziq Aziz claimed he was one of two men in the video.
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The death toll from the suspected arson attack on an anime studio in Kyoto, Japan has risen to 24, with dozens of others injured.

One suspect is in custody

The motive for the attack is unknown, as latest reports say the suspect is not a former employee, and has no obvious connection to the studio.